Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
parole board \pa*role" board`\, n. A group of individuals with authority to determine whether a prisoner will be granted parole[5] from a particular prison.
Wiktionary
n. A panel of people who decide if a prisoner should be released on parole.
Wikipedia
A parole board is a panel of people who decide whether an offender should be released from prison on parole after serving at least a minimum portion of their sentence as prescribed by the sentencing judge. Parole boards are used in many jurisdictions, including the United Kingdom, the United States, and New Zealand. A related concept is the board of pardons and paroles, which may deal with pardons and commutations as well as paroles.
A parole board consists of people qualified to make judgements about the suitability of a prisoner for return to free society. Members may be judges, psychiatrists, or criminologists, although some jurisdictions do not have written qualifications for parole board members and will allow community members to serve in that capacity. A universal requirement is that the candidate for membership has to be of good moral fiber.
Usage examples of "parole board".
On a Thursday afternoon in early May, I received a phone call from the attorney for the Parole Board.
On second thought, will you simply take action on my case with the parole board in the normal way of an interested party for an inmate?
It couldn't have lasted too many years longer, and it would have added up to a lot less than it has now, with all the time I spent serving life and waiting for the parole board to open the doors.
Ann Barker serves on the Parole Board, and another member of the Parole Board was also present at the dinner.
For a man of Beynon's prominence--the head of the state's pardon and parole board--to have the wife of a notorious criminal in his apartment for an all-night stay .
Bill's take: Polete fucked up inside or was recognizably psycho and unable to con the parole board.
This isn't strictly within the guidelines set out by the parole board.
When it was near my time to leave, he schooled me about how to act in front of the Parole Board.
He had put his quota of people away, and the parole board released them faster than they were incarcerated.